Well-developed cycling infrastructure is a fundamental and crucial layer of every city, where thousands of people commute by bike on a daily basis. This not only means that we need separate bikeways not available to cars, but much more: bridges, tunnels, and more—and more and more—secure parking places. So as part of our Bike Month coverage, here is a selection of state-of-the-art bike infrastructures, which pave the way for a better biking world.

The Don Burnett bicycle pedestrian bridge (also known as Mary Avenue Bridge) in Cupertino, California, opened in 2009.

The Big Dam Bridge across the Arkansas river, in North Little Rock, Arkansas, opened in 2006. At .8 miles in length, it is the longest bridge in North America built for pedestrian and bicycle use only.

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The Amsterdam Nesciobrug (Nescio Bridge) is the longest, and probably the neatest cycle bridge in the Netherlands. It was completed in 2006.

Bikedispenser is an automated system for storing and sharing rental bicycles (Eindhoven, the Netherlands).

The Hovenring Eindhoven (the Netherlands), designed by Ipv Delft, opened in 2013. This spectacular circular bridge is a suspended bicycle and pedestrian path roundabout in the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, and the first of its kind in the world.